From now until the end of February, visitors to eight major markets in the United States will be able to lease a 2014 or 2015 Audi A4 2.0T Quattro for fifty-nine dollars a day. If you drive through an automated toll with the car, you wil l be charged the actual amount of the toll charge. If you forget to fill the car, they will fill it for the price of the street as well as five dollars. The company is called "Silvercar" and you can get their application on your smartphone in seconds.
At this point, simply read the following article, right? Since the Altima and Fusion Hertz will cost between $ 35 and $ 55 per day at most of these airports, which is to think? Either you do not care about what you rent, in this case, pay for an Audi seems stupid, or you are anxious not to be seen driving a rental car, in this case, pay $ 59 per day for an Audi instead of $ 149 per day for a cheap class is benzo beyond obvious.
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Silvercar works as FedEx did back in the early days of FedEx, which is to say that they emphasize a narrow range services and try to excel in this range. As previously reported, they operate in only eight markets, and they do not have a rental office of conventional airport. This is presented as a premium feature - your Silvercar Concierge will meet you with your car - but in practice it means taking a shuttle somewhere Parking t o Silvercar can avoid the concession fees of airport. This is about as high-end as it sounds.
Silvercar My experience lasted six days and started to LAX, where I took a shuttle to a parking lot and met my concierge. He directed me to use my smartphone to scan the QR code on the windshiel d. Insofar as it night time, its not going well. Eventually we settled on using his phone for light and my phone to a scanner. I mention this to show that the company is still working on some issues, such as how can we rent a car to someone when the fireball that lit the world is sleeping with Persephone or something like that.
the actual specification of the Silvercar itself is quite fascinating from a former Audi owner like me. This is not a car you can buy in the US, at least not at a dealership. It offers a full range of infotainment functions, including climate control integrated single area Wi-Fi hotspot and navigation, but it has. In addition, entry features keyless are disabled, probably to avoid various problems in their garage facilities. Some of the cars Sport aero, others do not. There is no shift paddles on the steering wheel, either. However, it is the climate in an area that reliably identify the oldest Silvercars in batches used in the future.
In Silvercar spec A4 exudes complete and total acceptability, but not much else. The combination of small engine, Quattro drivertrain and semi-automatic obtuse eight-speed is not magic, although when you really need to force the issue of Audi will shake in a way that a four-cylinder Malibu or Sonata simply can not. Driving this back-to-back with a Camry SE 2014, I wondered where, exactly, the sixty percent markup was.
In any kind of race with my V6 Accord, this Audi would not see how the Honda Fit. However, a thirty-mile canyon run with T he Smoking Tire Matt Farah and listening-up Fiesta ST showed that Audi chassis behavior absolutely trustworthy. There are few cars out there that I want to take the tires screeching on a territory completely unknown mountain road - but it is also an indictment of relatively low limits of the A4. Low but wide; you can make some mistakes and balance of the nose-heavy combine with some torque to the rear and fix things pretty well. In any case, this car behave neutrally. If you want, go get a Camry and learn to get off the throttle midcorner gas. Seriously.
There is also the fact that this generation of Audi has been around for eight years now, without much in the way of improvement. While Im pretty happy with the MMI navigation and audio interface, after using for two years in my lime green S5, each passenger in the Silvercar I was completely disgusted with the school of entering addresses or research twist and release music.
Although Silvercar a return method w hich is very similar to their method of collection, I chose instead to visit their base of operations near LAX to inspect the facilities and see how fly -by-night it was. The answer: not at all. They had perhaps eighty cars in stock, all clean and in exceptional form. The place was quiet and dust free. The return process was quite easy, and I suspect they would have run me at the airport I was-asked.
As a way to try-before-you-buy with an Audi A4, Silvercar makes excellent sense. Replacing limited scope for a rental car, it is good sense. Retail price, whatever that price proves to be, when these Audis are thirty thousand miles on them? At this point, you may want to consider the Camry of Hertz.
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